All of the resources included in our person-centred care resource centre have been reviewed by the Health Foundation. We believe them to be of the highest possible standard but we do not take responsibility for the accuracy of information from third parties.

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This hour-long webinar, hosted by Adrian Sieff, Assistant Director at the Health Foundation, provides an excellent introduction to how to understand and implement shared decision making and self-management support into mainstream health care services. It includes presentations by Nahid Ahmad and Holly Krelle from ICF International.

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In this blog, Anya de Iongh describes how her 92 year old grandmother, who subscribes to the 'doctor knows best' school of thought and would not describe herself as having long term conditions, is in fact a role model for self-management support.

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This is the first review to examine the moderating effect of sex in self-management support interventions. A substantial sample frame of 1887 potentially relevant studies (identified via 116 Cochrane reviews) were screened for eligibility against the inclusion criteria.

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This resource is a series of slides that were presented at the Health Foundation's 'Making self-management support a reality' event, held in May 2015. The slide sets share the learning from Whittington Health, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundatiuon Trust on how best to put self-management support into practice.

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In this brief article, Sara Riggare describes how her limited contact with health services (two appointments with her consultant a year) highlights the importance of being able to manage her own health and describes some of the skills and techniques she uses to manage her Parkinson's.

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In this blog Dr David Paynton, who is a practising GP from Sounthampton and National Clinical Lead for the RCGP Centre for Commissioning, describes his own practice's experience of implementing care and support planning using the house of care model. He describes some of the challenges, and the need for not only local but whole system change.